Kate Langbroek believes 27 days in isolation has benefited her marriage: 'We lie in bed like gumnut babies'

Kate Langbroek has admitted that the silver lining of being in full lockdown is that she feels more connected to her husband Peter Allan Lewis.

Langbroek, who has been living in complete isolation in Bologna Italy amid the coronavirus crisis, reflected on the positive impact it's had on her marriage.

"We lie in bed like little gumnut babies just clutching each other's hands until we fall asleep ready to start it all again the next day," Langbroek told Hughesy & Ed this morning.

Kate Langbroek and her husband Peter Lewis. (Instagram)

Langbroek has been holed up at home with Lewis and their four children, Lewis, Sunday, Artie and Jan.

The radio host revealed that the situation has had an "unsettling" effect on her family who haven't left the house in close to a month.

"They've been home schooling for five weeks, we've been in lockdown for three weeks," she said.

Kate Langbroek picking up her four kids on the school run in Bologna. (Instagram)

Langroek added: "The whole thing is just unsettling. We try to be level [headed] for the kids. We were told here that we would be coming out of lockdown on April 3... and of course we're not going to, and there's no word on when we will.

"It's just the uncertainty and it's a grind, but most of the time we're fine."

In January last year, Langbroek moved her family from their Melbourne home in order to get a change of scenery and never looked back.

Kate Langbroek's family. (Instagram)

She decided to make the move after son Lewis battled leukaemia for three years, deciding that that the family needed an "adventure."

"Our eldest son Lewis, who's 15 now, and healthy and beautiful, had leukaemia when he was six, and was in treatment for four years, and nearly died," Langbroek told The Sunday Project in July last year.

"For so long we couldn't go anywhere, we couldn't travel anywhere — I mean we went to the hospital, we went home. There seemed something really life affirming about having an adventure together as a family."

At the time of writing, there are currently 105,792 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Italy and 12,428 deaths according to John Hopkins University.

In Australia, there are 4,804 reported cases that have led to 20 deaths.

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